It used to be a lot more difficult and time-consuming to edit photographs before the personal computer and Photoshop.
To demonstrate the art of photo-printing in the days of the darkroom, Pablo Inirio—who is the master printer at Magnum Photos—shows the process of manual editing with chemicals.
After scribbling notes on a trio of famous photographs—including the one of James Dean in Times Square—Inirio then had to go back and forth, burning and dodging specific areas to create the desired final print.
Does this make you feel glad that you can now edit a photograph quickly with a few clicks of the mouse, or do you feel nostalgic for this dying art of darkroom editing?
Read more about this fascinating process over here.
[via Gizmodo]